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Easton Press leather edition of "The Poems of John Keats," a COLLECTOR'S edition, Illustrated by David Gentleman, one of the 100 GREATEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN series, published in 1980. Bound in burgundy leather, the book has camel tan moire silk end leaves, satin book marker, hubbed spine, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. John Keats , who lived from 1795 – 1821, was a major English ROMANTIC poet. Dead before his 25th birthday from TB, Keats moved to ROME where he lay dying, he told his friend to inscribe his grave with the words: "Here lies one whose name was writ in water." This volume includes his most famous poems: "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles," "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," the "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode to a Nightingale," "La Bella Dame sans Merci: A Ballad," "The Eve of St. Agnes," "The Eve of St. Mark," "Ode on Melancholy," "Ode on Indolence," "Endymion: a Poetic Romance," "Spenser, a Jealous honorer of thine," "The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream," "To Mrs. Reynolds' Cat," "On Sitting Down to Read 'King Lear' Once Again," "To Homer," "Imitation of Spenser," "King Stephen," "I cry your mercy---pity---love!---aye, love!," "A Song About Myself," "Isabella; or, The Poet of Basil," "Over the Hill and over the dale," "On Fame," "On a Dream," "Sleep and Poetry," "To Leigh Hunt, Esquire," "On the Sea," "To Autumn," "On Visiting the Tomb of Burns," "Lines on the Mermaid Tavern," "La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad," "Ode to Psyche," "On the Grasshopper and Cricket," "Lamia," "Lines on the Mermaid Tavern," "Sleep and Poetry," "On the Grasshopper and Cricket," "Addressed to Haydon," "To Autumn," "To Charles Cowden Clarke," and Others. 337 pages, including Notes, an Index of First Lines and an Index of Titles. I offer Combined shipping.